While Sunny was asleep
***
Cassie was in her cabin sitting on a wooden chair. She was both distraught and exhilarated at the same time, and the reason was simple.
It was Sunny's decision not go into the Estuary.
It confused her, it didn't make sense.
'Out of all the things I considered, planned for...'
She was furious.
'This wasn't supposed to happen!'
She had thoughts like those.
But also thoughts like these.
'It's also a good thing he didn't go, as much as I hate Fate and want it destroyed, I have to think about Sunny.'
'Hasn't he already suffered enough...'
'For most of his life, he wasn't able to relax and live his life in peace and now, for his biggest wish he has to sacrifice the very reasons of this wish.'
Cassie couldn't make sense of what she was feeling.
On one hand, she was relieved and elated that Sunny chose his friends, his connections, that he accepted them and trusted them, and the world- both worlds even.
On the other hand, she was infuriated, that the plan she made perfected through millions of cycles, her biggest wish wasn't granted.
'Why? Just why? Why does Fate have to be this cruel?'
'Why can't I break fate?'
And she wept.
And did so for a long time before deciding that she was overwhelmed and couldn't think straight, so she decided to let the matter go for now and sleep.
She dismissed her armor type memory and any type of armor type memory and summoned a garment type memory, and took off her blindfold and placed it upon a desk near her, she then decided to lie her body on the bed in her cabin.
After a few moments, she felt her body relax and she truly slept
***
8 hours later
Cassie woke up and immediately took a battle stance, because she heard strange noises.
To be specific
She was hearing loud noises, loud groaning, crying,screaming, they sounded as if the person was being tortured.
Cassie was stunned and thought only of one person.
'Sunny!'
She quickly dismissed her garment type memory and summoned her armor type memory, took her blindfold off the table, put it on, and then ran to Sunny's cabin.
She quickly reached his cabin and opened the door.
She saw him on the floor convulsing and twisting his limbs in every way possible while foaming at his mouth, while he was screaming.
She was disgusted and wanted to throw up at the sight.
But she couldn't, because her friend was suffering. She wanted to help, help in some way.
But she knew, she couldn't, she could only run up to the deck and wait for nephis.
Who would know better than a seer, she was one afterall.
She felt remorse,while closing the door and running to the deck.
She was disgusted by her own inability to help, by her helplessness.
She knew nephis would come in a few moments.
She waited.
And waited.
And waited.
***
After a while, she saw two figures coming from straight ahead.
She screamed as loud as she could
"NEPHIS, SUNNY IS IN TROUBLE, COME FASTER"
While frantically waving her arms.
It seemed her scream and frantic movement were effective because nephis and modret vanished from her eyes, which could only mean two things - either modret is using his Ascended ability to transport them to the ship or they were sprinting to the ship faster than Cassie's awakened ability was able to look into the future.
It took them less than fifteen breaths to reach the chain breaker, at least for nephis. Modret on the other hand slowed down after a few moments and was taking some time to get to the ship.
Nehpis took a few moments to catch her breath.
"Where is he?" She asked Cassie, while frantically breathing air in.
Cassie then pulled on Nehpis's hand and dragged her to Sunny's cabin.
Then she opened the door and the scene looked quite different from the last time Cassie was there.
This time, however, wasn't much better than the last time. Sunny was curled up like a ball on the floor, not convulsing and twisting his limbs in every possible way, he was still screaming, but this time however he was scratching deep into his skin and flesh.
It seems like he isn't wet in the face anymore, either he scratched his face off and it regenerated or he rubbed his face on the floor or his skin to dry himself.
After seeing Sunny in two different situations where he was suffering, her disgust with herself only grew more than ever.
She then looked over at nehpis.
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Nephis looked like she saw a ghost, she looked scared, disgusted and regret was surfacing in her eyes.
'What is happening to him'
She hurriedly bent over and started healing him.
She did heal him, but he was still scratching at his skin and flesh.
She was healing him for an hour.
She was so concentrated on healing him, that she didn't even notice that Kai, Effie, and Jet had returned.
They all looked somber though. Which wasn't a surprise given the situation.
But then there was modret who shortly came after Nephis.
***
He seemed amused by the situation and the reaction of everyone in the cabin of sunless.
But he did feel a little pity for him, even if it was mostly for the wrong reasons
He did like Sunny quite a bit, not romantically but he saw him as a "friend" as much as one like Modret would understand the meaning of a friend.
****
Nephis was still healing him while all this happened, she was so focused that she didn't even realize that she was crying.
But it didn't matter, he was still harming himself and being healed.
She wasn't going anywhere with this, until he suddenly stopped harming himself.
And just lie on the floor.
He was lying motionless on the floor.
Nephis then moved his body so that his face was facing her and his back against the floor.
She then increased the intensity of her healing, and it seemed to work because she saw a slight twitching in his eyelids.
And in the next moment, they opened.
But they didn't look like they were truly looking at her or anyone in this cabin, they looked blurry like awoke from a nightmare.